next winter will pass quicklyeverything will freeze under cold chimneyslike in a dry ant molecut with a scythe

only in March when the earthwill germinate its fangsthe house vineyard will crywith cold sweat in each new shoot

at Easter all great grandchildrenbarely having learned to walkwill step over dandelion flowersburning in the yardlightly and without traces

Cristina-Monica Moldoveanu is a Romanian poet who also translates her work in English. Her poems and haiku were published in three Romanian poetry journals, in the Indian poetry journals Conifers Call and Bizz Buzz, in a Romanian haiku anthology, a bilingual haiga anthology, a poetry anthology in Romania and in Wordgathering. Her works also appeared in Ploc!, Asahi Shimbun, Sketchbook, the Romanian magazine Haiku, Notes from the Gean, Multiverses, Daily Haiga, Ardea and Mainichi Daily News.